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Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

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Bill Vaughan
Age: 61 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 8
Died: 1977
Died: February 25
Journalist
Writer
St. Louis
Missouri
Effort
Funny
Used
Continuing
Make
Wear
Good
Drink
Things
Humor
Progress
Modern

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I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever.
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Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid.
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What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse.
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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the people for I doubt whether in any village in England, had such an accident happened to the rector, all the people would have roused themselves at midnight to wreak their vengeance on the assailant.
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Who's going to manage (health savings accounts)?. It's not going to be your local accountant, it's going to be Fidelity.
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We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.
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There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.
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I heard that [Clarkson] said some petty things about someone I care deeply about, so I just made some petty remarks 'cause I'm a petty guy.
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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.
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I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
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